Judge considers ban on separating families at border
SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge will consider arguments Friday to prohibit U.S. immigration authorities from separating parents from their children at the border. A lawsuit has been filed by the American Civil Liberties Union on behalf of a Congolese woman who was separated from her 7-year-old daughter for five months after claiming asylum in California.
The mother, identified in court documents as Mrs. L, claimed asylum at San Diego's San Ysidro border crossing on Nov. 1, 2017, and four days later she was separated from her daughter. The girl, then 6, was sent to a Chicago shelter overseen by the U.S.